Re: uImage target support on arm64

From: Baruch Siach
Date: Fri May 25 2018 - 07:01:19 EST


Hi Ramon,

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 10:05:15PM +0300, Ramon Fried wrote:
> I've noticed that it's not supported.
> Is it on purpose ?

Yes. The 32bit load address in the uImage header in pretty limited when
applied to 64bit ARM64. Even for ARM zImage is the preferred kernel format for
quite some time now, since it allows flexible load address, as well as
multi-platform kernels.

> If not I'll be happy to add support for: make uImage
> for arm64 targets.

baruch

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